Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Cannot start mysqld (Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Incorrect file format 'host' )


Are you seeing - Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Incorrect file format 'host' ?


Following is what I did -
  • removed mysql-server (#yum remove mysql-*)
  • re-installed mysql-server (#yum install mysql-server)
  • #cd /var/lib/mysql/mysql
  • #rm -rf *
  • #mysql_install_db
and then,

#service mysqld start


It worked!



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